Domain Name News

BBC had an article yesterday debating the need of a New gTLD for England: .England. Scotland will have its New gTLD .scot this summer and the city of London will have it’s own in a …

ICANN announced that 6 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 150 new gTLD strings. The 6 new gTLDs are: .XYZ, .WIKI, .NEUSTAR, .MANGO, .QPON, .بازار (xn--mgbab2bd) – Arabic for “bazaar/bazar” Check out …

Here is short interview from James Trevino that is the Founder/President/CEO of .VEGAS New gTLd. The interview first appeared in the .vegas official website. What drew me to the domain name field: A venture investment …

ICM Registry has been offering a list of (1283 today) premium/reserved .xxx domain names for sale with prices. ICM Registry has sold 73 .xxx domain names from the list in the past few months for a total of $516,800 USD. And …

2 new URS complaints were filed at the National Arbitration Forum for New gTLD domain names: aeropostale.clothing (filed on the 17th of February) bbva.guru (filed on the 19th of February) The first ever URS complaint …

GMO Internet Group company, GMO Registry, Inc. today announced the opening of new geographic top-level domain, .nagoya. In the first stage of the launch, application is open exclusively to trademark holders to protect both trademark …

Top Level Design, LLC, the applicant for the new top level domain .wiki, has selected NameJet, the leading domain name auction platform, to operate the sunrise and landrush auctions and help with future premium auctions. …

The CEO of London & Partners, London’s official promotional agency (and the parent company of Dot London Domains Ltd, the applicant of .london gTLD), Gordon Innes, wrote a letter to ICANN expressing some concerns about …

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 4 New gTLDs today: .diamonds, .enterprises, .tips, .voyage The following 7 New gTLDs are out of the EAP pricing and into the real general availability today: .construction, …

Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX), a mobile advertising technology company, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013. “Marchex made significant strides in 2013 as we expanded our Call Analytics …

This past week the following 7 New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .construction, .contractors, .directory, .kitchen, .land, .technology and .today. So this week another 2 New gTLD domain names were sold for 5 figures …

Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain – today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report, “The Dashboard,” detailing the increased growth of .ORG throughout 2013. The report reveals …

With the introduction of the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) registrars are obligated to send whois verification emails to all domain name registrants. Inaccurate contact data may result in the suspension or termination of a …

The Lantern gave an update on case I was following about an Ohio State Undergraduate Student Government (USG) campaign that was accused of failing to report a campaign expense.The campaign was found not to have …